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[b]Bayanin Naira[/b]
The meaning of Naira,

[b]Daidai na bayanin naira.[/b]
Exact meaning of Naira.

[b]Bayanin Naira.[/b]
The meaning of naira.

[b]Bayanin Naira, yanzu shi nake son baku.[/b]
The meaning of naira is what I'm about to give you.

[b]Naira dai namu abu mai maganin sirkan zamani.[/b]
Naira, the medicine of modern ailments.

[b]Naira dai namu abu mai maganin matan zamani.[/b]
This our naira, is the medicine of modern women.

[b]Yanzu zamanin nan namu, [/b]
In this modern age,

[b]mai kudi shi ke da mutunchi.[/b]
only the rich has any dignity.

[b]In ka na da naira,[/b]
If you've got naira,

[b]ko karya ka fada, ta zauna.[/b]
Any lie you tell, stands as truth.

[b]Amma in baka da naira,[/b]
But if you've got no naira,

[b]Mahaukachin kare ya fi ka.[/b]
Even a mad dog is better than you.

[b]Yanzu zamanin nan namu,[/b]
In this modern age of ours,

[b]kun ga Dan Azumi Baba,[/b]
you see elder Dan Azumi Baba,

[b]domin bashi da naira, [/b]
because he has no naira,

[b]in ya yi magana,[/b]
when he talks,

[b]Mutane sai a che da shi yayi karya,[/b]
people will call him a big liar,

[b]koko a che dashi dan moula ne.[/b]
or he would be called crazy.

[b]Ko a che masa ya sha daga,[/b]
or accuse him of being on drugs.

[b]Amma in kana da naira,[/b]
However, if you've got naira,

[b]sai ka karkache hular ka[/b]
you would slant your cap

[b]kamar da Rarrafe Kuyituba, sai ya karkache hular sa.[/b]
like Rarrafe Kuyituba slants his hat.

[b]Ya dinga zuba muku karya.[/b]
And be lying to everybody through his teeth.

[b]Saboda a kwai kudi a gurin sa,[/b]
Because he's loaded financially,

[b]duk jama'a ta gurin suna dadai ne,[/b]
everybody around would be agreeing with all he says,

[b]wannan magana daidai ne.[/b]
every thing you're saying is absolutely correct.

[b]Ai ko mun gani a hadis.[/b]
Infact, we've seen it in hadis.

[b]Mutan zamani.[/b]
The Modern individual,

[b]idan sun ganka da naira,[/b]
once they see you with naira,

[b]in kayi magana a mutane,[/b]
if you speak to people,

[b]sai ka ji sun yi jawabi,[/b]
you'd see them deliberating among themselves,

[b]sai su che shi dama, Alhaji ai mun san shi,[/b]
they would be saying we know Alhaji well.

[b]tun yana karami, Alhaji bai taba yin karya ba.[/b]
right from childhood, Alhaji has never told a lie.

[b]Amma in baka da naira,[/b]
But if you have no naira,

[b]komai ka fada, karya che.[/b]
Whatever you say is a lie.

[b]Yanzu zamani ya changa.[/b]
Times have changed now.

[b]Su ma matan zamani, sai da kudin ka suke kaunarka[/b]
Even modern day women, only when you have money do they love you.

[b]Mache duk kaunar da take ma, ka yi kokari ka nemo naka.[/b]
Regardless of a woman's love toward you, work hard to bring home money.

[b]Ka yi kokari ka nemo naira.[/b]
Struggle to find naira.

[b]Idan ta ganka da naira, sai ka gani kauna ta mike.[/b]
When she sees you with naira, suddenly you'd see love blossom.

[b]Idan kuwa baka da naira, sai ka gani kauan ta kare.[/b]
But if you have no naira, suddenly you'd see love vanish.

[b]Nima da ka ganmi makaho,[/b]
Even me a blindman,

[b]matan zamani, na riga na gane halin su.[/b]
modern woman, I've already understood their behavior.

[b]kaman Fati Bararode, ko Maryam Bubar Aliyu.[/b]
Just like Fati Bararode, or Maryam Bubar Aliya.

[b]in suka gan ni da dubban naira.[/b]
if they see me with a boat load of naira.

[b]ku duba kyawun Maryam Omert, koko Fati Bararode.[/b]
See how beautiful Maryam Omert is, or Fati Bararode.

[b]Kunga dai makaho ne ni, in nache inna kaunar su,[/b]
As you can see I'm a blindman, if I say I like them,

[b]saboda dubban naira, sai su durkusa a gaba na.[/b]
because of my loads of naira, they would kneel before me.

[b]Sai su che to mallam, ai mutum ba zai ki mutum ba[/b]
They would say, hey Mr. a human cannot reject another human.

[b]Tun da kana kaunar ta, ni ma ina kaunar ka,[/b]
Since you like me, I too like you,

[b]Shi aure babu haramu.[/b]
Marriage is not forbidden.

[b]Har me ka ji tayi wa'azin ta,[/b]
You would even hear her preaching,

[b]sai ta che mallam, ai Allah ne ya yi ka,[/b]
you would hear her say, it's God that made you,

[b]kuma ni ma Allah ya yi ni.[/b]
same as God made me too.

[b]Ni da kai, ai ba banbanchi.[/b]
You and I, there is no difference.

[b]I dan nache yarinya, kin san babu ido a gare ne,[/b]
If I say lady, you know I have no eyes,

[b]Sai ta che, kai mallam manta da makanta.[/b]
She would say, hey Mr, please forget that nonesense.

[b]Manta da makanta, masu idon ma, me suka fi ka.[/b]
Forget that nonesense, even those with eyes how are they better than you.

[b]Ga ka dan tsirin yaro, kuma ga kyaun fuska.[/b]
You slender boy, plus handsome face.

[b]Kuma ga ka da dubban naira.[/b]
Then there you are with loads of naira.

[b]Don Allah manta da makanta.[/b]
For God's sakes forget the nonesense.

[b]Maryam Umar an ganni da naira.[/b]
Maryam Umar sees me with naira.

[b]Amma in bani da naira,[/b]
But if I don't have naira,

[b]Ko da mummuna che,[/b]
Even if she's ugly,

[b]In na che ina kaunar ta,[/b]
If I say I like her,

[b]Sai ta koma gefe ta che, laila ilallahu,[/b]
She would run to a corner, and say oh my goodness gracious!

[b]Yanzu ka dubi kama ta, ka che niche matar ka.[/b]
Now for you to see somebody like me, and say you want me.

[b]Ko babu maza a garin nan,[/b]
Even if there are no men in this town

[b]Ni me zan yi da makaho,[/b]
What would I do with a blindman,

[b]Yaya zanyi na auri makaho,[/b]
How in the world would I marry a blindman!

[b]Ai ko matarka ta aure,[/b]
Even your matrimonial wife,

[b]ai sai da kudin ka take kaunarka.[/b]
only when you have money would she love you.

[b]In ta gan ka da naira,[/b]
When she sees you with naira,

[b]in ta gan ka da naira, ranna sai ga ji sabon suna,[/b]
when she see you with naira, that day you would hear a near name

[b]sai ka ji ta kira Honi,[/b]
you would hear her call you honey,

[b]ko kuwa tache maka da Dalin[/b]
or she would call you Darling.

Ai nan baka san komai ba,
You haven't heard anything yet,

[b]ai ma ta kira ka da Sharifi,[/b]
she would even call you Sheriff,

[b]in ka gane zugar ta, ka kone.[/b]
when you understand her buttering you up, you would melt.

[b]Wai matar ka ta aure,[/b]
Your own matrimonial wife,

[b]Idan ta ganka da naira,[/b]
When she sees you with naira,

[b]Sai ta che Haji baitin lahi.[/b]
She would say Alhaji your highness.

[b]Idan kuma baka da naira,[/b]
But then if you have no naira,

[b]sai ta kira ka da gautan ladi.[/b]
she would call you with disgust.

[b]A kudin mu ta naira,[/b]
In our currency naira,

[b]dubu guda ita che Asamahu.[/b]
is Sabara'u.

[b]Ka san sabara'u, maisa ka mai da arne mallam.[/b]
You know sabara'u makes you turn a devil into a gentleman.

[b]Idan ka ganshi da naira,[/b]
when you see him with naira,

[b]sai ka durkusa a gaban sa,[/b]
you would kneel before him,

[b]ka dinga che masa...[/b]
you would be saying...

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2011-01-23T23:52:34+00:00 2011-01-23T23:52:34+00:00 http://nairaland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2937&p=3947#p3947 <![CDATA[Music/Radio, TV/Movies • Adieu! Sikiru Ayinde Barrister]]>
He died after a protracted battle with diabetes and hypertension.

When he was alive little did anybody know about his private life, but sources say that the singer left behind 16 wives and at least 62 children.

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2010-11-22T01:15:13+00:00 2010-11-22T01:15:13+00:00 http://nairaland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2937&p=3877#p3877 <![CDATA[Music/Radio, TV/Movies • ]]>
The Osogbo-based actor of Koto Aye and Ide fame died at his residence after a protracted illness that lasted for three months.

He was buried according to Islamic injunctions. One of his wives, Alhaja Mujidat Ajileye a.k.a. Mama Mi L’eko, also died barely two years prior.

Some of the popular films he produced during his life time, include Koto Aye, Eran Iya Osogbo, Ibrahim, Omo Orukan, Aye Alaye, and Ide among others. Until his death, the late Ajileye was a very close friend of Yem-Kem boss, Prince (Dr.) Akintunde Ayeni.

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2010-11-21T16:33:44+00:00 2010-11-21T16:33:44+00:00 http://nairaland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2937&p=3874#p3874 <![CDATA[Music/Radio, TV/Movies • Nollywood actor Nureni Aremu died]]>
"He was inside his car with two of his colleagues. He was on his way to deliver the script of his latest work to a senior colleague. What we heard was that the car rammed into a pot-hole and it somersaulted. To worsen matters, an oncoming truck hit it. That was how the story changed for Larry," a neighbour told this reporter in tears.

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2010-10-24T19:29:02+00:00 2010-10-24T19:29:02+00:00 http://nairaland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2927&p=3858#p3858 <![CDATA[Music/Radio, TV/Movies • Beyond Nollywood]]>
Hats off to Nigeria for this amazing achievement. The sole criteria for Nollywood becoming "second in the world", is the number of movies it puts out annually. It speaks nothing to the quality, or eventual financial success of the movies.

Wherever you find the phrase "high quality", the word "expensive" is never far behind. It therefore logically follows, that if Nollywood is to improve the quality of its movies, it has to invest more money into the making of those movies. However, in reality, that statement may not be true. In a modern age of computers, great movies can be made without spending a lot of physical cash. This is possible thanks to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), which is available to all at no charge.

To elucidate what FOSS is, it is software developed by volunteer computer programmers around the world, and made available to everybody free or charge. An example of FOSS is OpenOffice (which is free), vs Microsoft Office (which costs money). Almost every software that costs money today has a FOSS alternative.

One downside of movie-making is that it's often very expensive. However, that downside could also serve as its upside, since it means that competition is minimal in the arena of making good movies. As an entrepreneur, you want a niche area for your goods and services.

Examples of FOSS used in making movies are as follows: Linux, Cinelerra, Blender, VirtualDub, Kino, Avidemux, Super, Lives, Kdenlive, ffmpeg, Rosegarden, FilmGimp, CinePaint, Gimp, Devede, WAX, and many more.

These sophisticated programs are free for the taking. No piracy involved. Similar for-pay alternatives, would set you back hundreds of thousands of Dollars. Nollywood could take advantage of this.

When it comes to video processing, very powerful computers are inevitable. Of course, very powerful is synonymous to very expensive. Luckily for us, computers are dirt cheap nowadays. It has become easy to build movie render-farms on even a shoe string budget today.

I recently gave a presentation to Linux professionals in Nevada on how to build a powerful inexpensive supercomputer from commodity computers running FOSS. A country like Nigeria would benefit immensely from adopting FOSS, since it offers the poor the same opportunities to do what the big boys like Hollywood are doing. We are no longer constrained by money, but by our own imagination.

If FOSS programs are good enough for multi-Billion dollar Hollywood, Disney Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, etc, they certainly are good enough for Nigeria's Nollywood.

Nollywood needs to begin awarding scholarships to talented students to study film-making. The scholarship recipients would then mentor others afterwards, soon leading to a cottage industry of film-makers.

While such scholarships is peanuts to an entity like the Nollywood film industry, its impact would revolutionize Nigerian movies, moving them closer to 21st century standards.

Not only Nollywood feature films stand to be beneficiaries of FOSS. The video game industry, the advertising, and TV graphics industry, etc, could also be transformed. Case in point, watch the following two videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtB67qJyfKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hESUm2HZyuI

The second video demonstrates how the first commercial was made using FOSS. After watching the first video, don't you get a warm feeling inside about going out to try that product? That's the whole idea - to make videos that would make people want to buy what you're selling.

Nollywood needs the ability to create videos such as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eueoHjVXVfE&NR=1

Here are other stunning examples of movies made with free software: Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, Avatar, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Shrek 3, X-Men The Last Stand, King Kong, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, The Matrix, Titanic, Gladiator, In-Between Ends, Lighthouse, Sintel.

As you watch these movies, keep in mind that they were made using free programs that you too can download and use anyday, anytime. What is Nollywood's excuse for not also reaching such standards of movie-making excellence?

Beyond Nollywood, great movies could help the Nigerian economy, similar to how Hollywood helps the US economy. For instance, DreamWorks Animation employs about 1,200 people. So, with an R&D arm of Nollywood, we would have created a place for many talented Nigerian University graduates to go, away from 419, menial jobs, or even outright joblessness and crime. Furthermore, good movies could also find a market outside of the typical Nigerian audience, potentially reaching critical mass.

A journey of a thousand miles, begins with the first step. They say you must learn to crawl before you walk. However, I say you don't have to crawl into walking. Metaphorically speaking, Nollywood can walk and chew gum at the same time. Meaning that while we're making movies today within the confines of our knowledge, ability and resources, we also need to have a research arm that is simultaneously working on better ways of doing things, so that each successive movie we make, is a bit better than previous ones.

The door is open. Is Nollywood prepared to walk through it?

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2010-10-15T22:33:13+00:00 2010-10-15T22:33:13+00:00 http://nairaland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2925&p=3848#p3848 <![CDATA[Music/Radio, TV/Movies • Become a Nollywood movie star]]>
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01 73 834 40

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2010-10-12T00:17:41+00:00 2010-10-12T00:17:41+00:00 http://nairaland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2921&p=3844#p3844 <![CDATA[Music/Radio, TV/Movies • Richest Nollywood Actresses]]>
Genevieve Nnaji (N64 million)

Ini Edo (N60 million)

Rita Dominic (N58 million)

Mercy Johnson (N55 million)

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde (N53 million)

Patience Ozokwor (N51 million)

Uche Jombo (N50 million)

Monalisa Chinda (N50 million)

Chioma Chukwuka (N46 million)

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2009-10-23T22:49:16+00:00 2009-10-23T22:49:16+00:00 http://nairaland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1125&p=3665#p3665 <![CDATA[Music/Radio, TV/Movies • ]]> have anybody close to you won any amount of money courtesy of who wants to be a millionaire ?
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I don't know anybody who has won. However, I don't have any reason to doubt what is on TV, that those people who won, really did not win. If that were the case, we would have heard about it.

You should keep trying to get on. You may get lucky one day.

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2009-10-22T23:38:29+00:00 2009-10-22T23:38:29+00:00 http://nairaland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1125&p=3662#p3662 <![CDATA[Music/Radio, TV/Movies • ]]> Statistics: Posted by xdunamis — Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:38 pm


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2009-10-22T22:49:03+00:00 2009-10-22T22:49:03+00:00 http://nairaland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1156&p=3655#p3655 <![CDATA[Music/Radio, TV/Movies • ]]> Statistics: Posted by xdunamis — Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:49 pm


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2009-10-22T20:59:03+00:00 2009-10-22T20:59:03+00:00 http://nairaland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1200&p=3652#p3652 <![CDATA[Music/Radio, TV/Movies • ]]> Statistics: Posted by xdunamis — Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:59 pm


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